Architecture & Engineering

Fort Sumter National Monument hosted over 75 participants from more than fifteen National and State parks at the Preserving Coastal Forts: a National Park Service (NPS) Workshop held April 8-10, 2008 in Charleston, South Carolina. Park Superintendents, Cultural Resource and Facility Managers, Architects and Engineers, Masons and Maintenance Mechanics, contractors and partners attended.

NCPTT’s Andy Ferrell chaired the session “Sustainable Preservation” at Colorado Preservation Inc.’s 2008 Saving Places Conference.

Digital Technology Integration: San Antonio Riverwalk Documentation Pilot Project. A team of architecture students from the College of Architecture at Texas Tech University led by Professors John P. White and Gary W. Smith completed HALS documentation of the Arneson Theatre using a 3D laser scanner and AutoCad.

Students will analyze photographs of historic buildings, categorize them according to similar characteristics, and identify their various architectural styles.

NCPTT’s Andy Ferrell recently participated in the first Louisiana Flood Protection and Ecosystem Restoration Professional Development Program.

Kirk Cordell and Andy Ferrell participated in planning for “Preserving Coastal Forts: An NPS Workshop” that is scheduled April 8-10, 2008, in Charleston, South Carolina.

There are steps you can take to prepare a historic structure for natural disasters. NCPTT’s architecture and engineering program updates information it presented at the recent Historic Natchez Conference.

APT and NCPTT partnered to present nondestructive evaluation methods for historic structures. The workshop provided guidance for professionals and students in the use of diagnostic nondestructive testing for historic structures. It was
intended for technically oriented graduate and practicing engineers, architects, preservation consultants, and contractors who are not familiar with this subject area.

NCPTT is now advertising its 2008 summer internship opportunities in architecture and engineering, archeology and collections, heritage education, historic landscapes and materials conservation.

Andy Ferrell participated in the National Trust for Historic Preservation’s Sustainable Preservation Research Retreat.

As a result of NCPTT’s limewash study, Sarah Jackson has been in demand to present her research as well as hands-on demonstrations using traditional limewash.

Andy Ferrell of NCPTT, Deidre McCarthy of NPS Cultural Resources GIS and Barrett Kennedy of the LSU School of Architecture presented “Emerging Survey Tools: Not the Same Old Cultural Resource Survey” at the 2007 National Trust for Historic Preservation Conference.

Sarah Jackson of NCPTT presented “Limewash: the Other White ‘Paint’” at the 2007 International Preservation Trades Workshop in Frederick, Maryland.

NCPTT’s Sarah Jackson was featured in the Spring 2007 issue of Traditional Masonry Magazine (Volume 2, Issue 2).

Sarah Jackson represented NCPTT at the Casey Farms workshop, a Preservation Trades Network regional workshop.

NCPTT’s Sarah Jackson and Andy Ferrell attended the AIA’s annual conference in San Antonio.

90% of every construction dollar is spent on older buildings, because of this we believe that it is important to improve the nation’s built environment by rehabilitating and maintaining existing structures.

The initial version of the courses was offered as a 2-day workshop at the 2003 Association for Preservation Technology International Conference in Portland, Maine. In June 2004, the courses were expanded and offered in Natchitoches, LA as part of the NCPTT’s first Summer Institute.

The NCPTT partnered with Michael Henry, PE, AIA, and Sam Harris, PE, RA, JD to develop 4 course modules.

Architecture and Engineering is always seeking out partnerships to aid us in progressing our mission of expanding and disseminating knowledge about preservation of historic structures.